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  • Canned food has sell/us-by dates, because everything needs one…

    Acidic food can get weird tasting, but you’re better off ignoring the date and caring about structure integrity of the can.

    It’s not about if it ruptured, if it was canned correctly or not. If there’s any flex whatsoever in the can, don’t risk. Even if it’s on the grocery store shelf and a year from expiration.

    So you can use whatever beans you want, but don’t feel like you “have” to use the can, they’ll last.


  • Preparing for worst case scenario is literally the only reason humans managed to make it thru 17 different ice ages chief…

    In times of plenty people who will take any risk do well, but winter always comes and those dumb fucks get killed off.

    It’s human variation.

    The problem is we’re letting people incapable of evaluating risk drive a globally connected society.

    Next time shit gets bad, there’s a real chance instead of a kingdom dissolving, virtually every living human dies, despite how personally risk averse they are.

    The problem is ultra capitalists being in charge of everything, not just that they exist on a fringe


  • Yep.

    If capitalism is calling the shots, then no one plans more than a fiscal quarter ahead of time.

    You can’t compete against someone that just ignores all risks, because if nothing goes wrong they put you out of business.

    And by the time something goes wrong, they have enough wealth and connections to get bailed out by governments.

    Because of that, every society that places capitalism above all else, will eventually implode. One day there just won’t be anything to bail them out with.

    It make sense for the oligarchs to keep making bets they can’t lose, but it means everyone else is forced to take bets we cant win.





  • OP’s profile:

    Working on Plebbit

    For those who don’t know, that was a shitty hard right wing social media that kept talking vaguely about how it was like crypto and torrenting.

    For years now people have been spamming it to the threadiverse and trying to trick people into joining.

    If you go to this website:

    https://bitsocial.net/

    It lists 5chan as inspiration…

    And people are upvoting and promoting this entirely unmoderated chan board because two seconds of research is too difficult…

    Like, c’mon people, critical thinking is important now more than ever

    Quick edit:

    And to be clear this is the exact same project OP always spams, they just keep changing the name of it. It used to be accessible over the web tho, which allowed everyone to see the fucking horrendously racist, bigoted, and outright illegal shit they want people to be able to post.






  • Rail was owned by the wealthiest and they made their money shipping freight.

    Lobbyists got the US government to “sell” them the actual railways, but they had to maintain it.

    So if/when there’s a conflict on the rail, freight gets to go first. They’re giant heavy trains moving insanely slowly, so even tho passenger could get by faster, they sit for hours waiting.

    Back to private companies maintaining the rails, they did cost/benefit analysis and decided since they pay insurance anyways, it’s not smart to fix anything till insurance rates go up.

    The problem is when a wreck happens there’s public outcry, so the government uses taxpayer funds to fix it quickly.

    They wait till an accident happens, insurances pays for just the cargo, and that’s insured by the supper so the train insurance never goes up. Taxpayers pay to clean up the wreck and put in new tracks.

    With the current system, the wrecks will keep happening more and more frequently because stuff only gets fixed after it fails, and only that one spot.



  • there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.

    Admins need to do routine pruning…

    A shit ton of people jumped over from reddit and instantly created a bunch of communities just so they’d be “top mod” but there was either no demand or no supply. So accounts that mod 20-30 communities went inactive years ago at this point.

    I picked up a /fantheories community no one had ever really posted to, just because I didn’t want to post somewhere that didn’t have an active mod.

    But I guess any type of community on reddit that isn’t on lemmy is gonna get created anyways.

    But if you see dead communities about something you’re interested in, admins are usually pretty thankful if someone offers to take it.





  • I used to love Borderlands…

    Then they locked characters behind expensive DLC. So I started waiting for the “everything” editions, but then it made sense to just wait for big sales…

    And eventually not caring about the franchise.

    Its like Crusader Kings or Sims. It’s better than annual releases that don’t really change, but the DLC structure turns people away from the entire game. Even if you wait for a sale, all the “new” DLC stays expensive.

    So people put off buying anything till they just don’t care.